Mobile Phones Are ‘Cooking’ Men’s Sperm- New Study

Fertility experts are warning man that using a mobile for as
little as an hour a day is “cooking sperm” and lowering level
significantly. The new study shows that having a mobile phone close to the
testicles – or within a foot or two of the body – can lower sperm levels so
much that conceiving could be difficult.

The findings have led to a leading British fertility expert
to advise men to stop being addicted to mobile phones.

“If you wear a suit to work put the mobile in your
chest pocket instead of close to your testes. It will reduce the risk of your
sperm count dropping or dropping so much.”

The study – by highly respected specialists – found that
sperm levels of men who kept their phones in their pocket during the day were
seriously affected in 47 per cent of cases compare to just 11 per cent in the
general population.

Professor Martha Dirnfeld, of the Technion University in
Haifa, said: “We analysed the amount of active swimming sperm and the
quality and found that it had been reduced.

“We think this is being caused by a heating of the
sperm from the phone and by electromagnetic activity.”

The team monitored more than 100 men attending a fertility
clinic for a year.

The quality of sperm among men in Western countries is constantly
decreasing, they found. They also found that besides men keeping their phones
close to their groin many spoke on the phone while it was charging and kept it
only a few centimetres from their bed.

Even keeping the phone on a bedside table appears to raise
lower sperm cell counts.

They also discovered the quality of sperm among men in
Western countries is constantly decreasing and is considered crucial in 40
percent of the cases in which couples have difficulty conceiving a child.